LOD: Political Poison

The Institute for Southern Studies/Facing South reveals the connection between toxic money pouring into NC politics and legislation to increase toxic chemicals pouring into our air. The article draws on a new analysis by Democracy North Carolina of the political muscle of 27 leading polluters and their trade groups. Hint: by themselves, they annually spend 10 times as much on lobbying and campaign donations as all the environment groups combined.  The legislative effort to allow big polluters to bypass North Carolina’s highly acclaimed Air Toxics Program is all the more diabolical because regulators and several environmental groups are ready to accept the change out of fear that conservative legislators will deliver on a threat to gut the program even further. What madness.